They're hunting for Bigfoot — and hampering a police search for suspects behind a $6.5 million Texas marijuana farm.

Texas Games Wardens were stunned when they discovered a secret one-acre farm with almost 6,550 marijuana plants last weekend, but their search for those responsible is being disrupted by hunters hoping to find Bigfoot in the Wildlife Management Area in Cooper.

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"This is the largest discovery of marijuana found in my career as Sheriff," Delta County Sheriff Ricky Smith told KETR Public Radio.

The plants are up to 10 feet tall and authorities were alerted to the site near the Sulphur River after hog hunters spotted the growers' campsite.

Authorities believe the production has been in progress since at least May after discovering makeshift tents hidden deep inside the canopy of the tall trees, complete with home comforts.

The fully equipped sites had farming equipment such as generators, fertilizer, axes and hoses to aid with their production process. And wardens also found air mattresses and lanterns rigged to charge cell phones, as well as personal care items such as toothpaste and dental floss.

The farm appears to be two separate sites in which the drugs were dried and backpacked out down the river.

"We were told the suspects spoke English and communicated well," added Sheriff Smith.

"We did a good perimeter search for a car. That they might have left a car and came in here [Wildlife Management Area], but there was no indication.

"It appears someone just dropped them off here."

In July 2014, a deer hunter stumbled upon more than 40,000 plants in Goodrich, about 70 miles north of Houston.